FULFILLEDStated 1999
Ray KurzweilFuturist; author of “The Singularity Is Near”
By 2009, "a $1,000 personal computer can perform about a trillion calculations per second." (from The Age of Spiritual Machines, 1999)
hardwareforecast
- Verdict
- Came true
- Deadline in claim
- By 2009
Assessment
By 2009 consumer GPUs in ~$1,000 PCs reached roughly one teraflop. Widely judged correct, including in Kurzweil's own 2010 review. Fulfilled — a decade-out hardware call that landed.
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